russian propaganda continues to spread false narratives as part of a large-scale disinformation campaign aimed at deflecting responsibility from russia for the strike on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra on June 15.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Pro-kremlin resources are circulating images allegedly showing photographers setting up professional equipment near the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra shortly before the attack and then supposedly documenting the fire at the religious site. Propagandists present these images as \u201cevidence\u201d that the damage to the church building was an \u201cUkrainian provocation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f In reality, these images are fake. Analysis conducted using specialized AI-content detection tools confirmed that they were generated with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f This fake is part of a broader conspiracy narrative that kremlin propaganda has been promoting following the massive strike on Kyiv, which resulted in damage to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.<\/p>\n
Since it is impossible to deny the fact that the Lavra was damaged, russian propaganda is attempting to shift public attention through disinformation and information manipulation. In this way, propagandists seek to convince audiences that the strike on the Lavra was a \u201cstaged event,\u201d when in fact it constitutes an obvious war crime committed by russia against Ukraine\u2019s cultural and religious heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russian propaganda continues to spread false narratives as part of a large-scale disinformation campaign aimed at deflecting responsibility from russia for the strike on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra on June 15. \u25ab\ufe0f Pro-kremlin resources are circulating images allegedly showing photographers setting up professional equipment near the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra shortly before the attack and then supposedly documenting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}